[CentOS] Centos 6 - OT

Mon Feb 28 04:04:39 UTC 2011
aurfalien at gmail.com <aurfalien at gmail.com>

On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Always Learning wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 21:46 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote:
>
>> The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better
>> to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -- that is, grudgingly
>> and suspiciously.  Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous,
>> and habit-forming.  The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter
>> its grip becomes.
>>
>> -- George Orwell (1903-1950), novelist
>
> Over here we are perhaps a little more aware he was one of us and he
> wrote in 'our' language. Our language is so successful at enabling
> expressive communications that others around the world have mutilated
> our language whilst attempting to improve upon it :-)
>
> Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950).
>
> 1984 arrived a few years late. With the introduction of fibre optics
> telecommunications in residential dwellings (coming to our town in  
> July
> 2011), just how long is the TV set going to stay unidirectional ?

Ok that was weird.